Theodor Oelckers

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Hermann Theodor Oelckers (born June 21, 1816 in Leipzig ; died January 20, 1869 there ) was a German writer , translator and revolutionary 1848/49.

Life

Nothing is known about Theodor Oelcker's parents and youth. After he graduated from high school in Leipzig, studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1837 . According to consistent reports, he had been working as a writer and translator since 1839. His first publication was that of the poem Seifried Schweppermann (1836) and the translations of three dramas by Shakespeare (1839). His book The Movement of Socialism and Communism in 1844 caused a greater stir . First, it was banned on September 11, 1844 in the Kingdom of Bavaria and probably also in Saxony. and second, he was suspected of plagiarism. Like many other writers, he was spied on by Metternich agents, in his case by Confident Jacob Eduard Singer , in the pre- March period . His biographer Franz Brümmer wrote his “scholarly writings” that “received little attention. His poems (1847), which reveal a deep poetic content and delight with their fine expression of thoughts, were more successful. "

During the March Revolution , Oelckers took an active part in the clashes in Leipzig. He participated in the association of Robert Blum and in May 1849 adhered to the new imperial constitution and was also involved in the Dresden May uprising. Oelckers was arrested for high treason. In October 1849 he was additionally sentenced to ten months imprisonment for a press offense, printing an article by Karl Heinzen and Gustav Struve in the city of Altenburg , which does not belong to Saxony . He himself reported on his ten years' imprisonment and his suffering in a book From Prison Life . Occasionally reports about the bad and z. T. inhumane conditions in the penitentiary Waldheim , so z. B. in the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung .

On June 12, 1859, Oelckers arrived in Leipzig without having signed a petition for clemency. Of the May prisoners, only Robert Binder , August Röckel, Franz Moritz Kirbach and the postal secretary Martin were incarcerated in Waldheim. He described his imprisonment in the book "From Prison Life". In contrast to August Röckel, his description of imprisonment is not marked by bitterness. His poems "Meine Mitgefangenen" (1860) were political in the opinion of the people.

At the suggestion of Friedrich Gerstäcker , he traveled to Porto Alegre in 1861 to set up a newspaper for German emigrants. The "Deutsche Zeitung. Tageblatt ”appeared on August 10, 1861. Oelckers wrote against the influence of the Jesuits . In 1862 he returned to Germany. In Leipzig he met August Bebel . He remembered him in his memoirs. “There were Rossäßmler , Dolge , who had been convicted of his participation in the May rise (...) and then sat in Waldheim for eight years. The 'criminals' also included Dr. Albrecht (...) Dr. Burckhardt , Dr. Peters , Theodor Oelckers, Dr. Fritz Hofmann , known as' Gartenlaube'-Hofmann, etc. We boys considered it a special honor to have a glass of beer at this table in the company of the old. "

In his last book publication in 1867, Oelckers returned to his beginnings, the struggle for democracy and republic, by translating Tocqueville's L'ancien régime et la révolution (1856) into German ( The old state and the revolution ).

Theodor Oelckers died on January 20, 1869 in a Leipzig hospital.

His friend Karl Albrecht mentions him in 1881: “Of the friends who supported me with their own notes, I must first mention the writer Theodor Oelckers; he was born in Leipzig like myself. "

Works

  • Seifried Schweppermann. In: Iris: entertainment sheets for literature and art. 2. Vol. 38 from March 27, 1836 ( books.google.de ).
  • William Shakespeare ’s all dramatic works. Edition in 12 volumes. Georg Wigand, Leipzig 1839. Translator: A. Böttger, Heinrich Döring, Alexander Fischer, Ludwig Hilsenberg, W. Campadius, Theodor Mügge , Theodor Oelckers, Ernst Ortlepp , L. Petz, Karl Simrock , Ernst Susemihl, E. Thein.
  • Thomas Moore ’s poetic works. In five volumes. With the portrait of the poet. Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., Leipzig 1839–1840.
  • The free spirit. A nineteenth century novel. 2 volumes. Bernhard Tauchnitz jun., Leipzig 1840.
  • Lady Sale : Diary of the accidents in Afghanistan. Translated from the English by Theodor Oelckers. TO Weigel, Leipzig 1843 ( MDZ Reader ).
  • Alexander Pope ’s Poetic Works. German by Adolf Böttger and Theodor Oelckers. 4 volumes. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1842.
  • Popular story of the German Peasant War in 1525. With an illustration. Gebr. Reichenbach, Leipzig 1843 ( books.google.de ).
  • Alexander Burnes : Kabul. Description of a trip to this city and the stay there in the years 1836, 1837 and 1838. Translated from the English by Theodor Oelckers. TO Weigel, Leipzig 1843 ( MDZ Reader ).
  • Self-confidence of the Philistines; Community of property; Right way; New time and new life. [Poems] In: Hermann Marggraff (Ed.). Songbook of the German Michel. Franz Peter, Leipzig 1843, pp. 23-27 ( MDZ Reader ).
  • The movement of socialism and communism . Fest'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1844. Archive.org
  • Captain Marryat : The settlers in Canada. A book for the younger world. Translated from the English by Theodor Oelkers. Bernhard Tauchnitz jun., Leipzig 1844.
  • Princess Marie von Oldenhof or the Eternal Jew. Novel. 3 volumes. Th. Thomas, Leipzig 1844. ( Volume 1 ; Volume 2 ; Volume 3 1848 Duchess Anna Amalia Library).
  • State, church, society. A popular review. Fest'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1845 ( MDZ Reader ).
  • Jean Paul . Novellistic accounts from the poet's youth. 2 volumes. Otto Klemm, Leipzig 1846 ( first volume ; second volume MDZ reader).
  • Prince and proletarian. A novel from the present. 2 volumes. Otto Klemm, Leipzig 1846 ( first volume ; second volume MDZ reader).
  • Goethe's student years. Novellistic descriptions from the life of the poet. 2 volumes. Kößling'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1846 ( 1st volume ; 2nd volume MDZ Reader).
  • Popular History of the Christian Wars of Religion. Leipzig 1846 ( books.google.de ).
  • Great world. A novel. 2 volumes. Kößling'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1846 ( first part ; second part MDZ reader).
  • Humorous-satyrical history of Germany from the time of the Congress of Vienna to the present day, along with a serious letter instead of an introduction and a serious conclusion. Otto Klem, Leipzig 1847 ( MDZ Reader ).
  • EL Bulwer's complete novels. Seventyth part. Lucretia or the children of the night. A novel. From the English Theodor Oelckers. Part 4. JB Metzlersche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1847 ( books.google.de ).
  • Poems. Otto Klemm, Leipzig 1847. (2nd edition, Otto Klemm, Leipzig 1848).
  • The Hanseate. Historical tragedy in five acts. Otto Klemm, Leipzig 1848 ( monthly for drama, theater, music. 1848) ( review ).
  • Political circular painting or small chronicle of the year 1848. For all readers from all classes who pay attention to the events of the time. Fest'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1849 ( digital.onb.ac.at ).
  • Walter Scott ’s complete works, newly translated by Dr. Hermann, Ms. Richter, Ms. Funck, Oelckers, Dr. Ernst Susemihl, Dr. Carl Andrä, W. Sauerwein and others. Hoffmann'sche Verlag-Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1850.
  • From prison life . 2 parts. Otto Wigang, Leipzig 1860 ( first part ; second part MDZ reader).
  • My fellow prisoners. Poems. Wilhelm Keil, Leipzig 1860 ( books.google.de ).
  • Seven fairy tales. Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1860 ( books.google.de ).
  • Humorous stories. 4 volumes. Leipzig 1864 ( first volume ; second volume ; third volume ; fourth volume MDZ reader).
  • The very last. Novel in nine books. Ambrosius Abel, Leipzig 1865 ( first volume ; second volume ; third volume ; fourth volume MDZ reader).
  • Alexis de Tocqueville : The old state and the revolution. German by Theodor Oelckers. Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1867 ( archive.org ).

literature

  • (Release from prison on June 12, 1859). In: Würzburger Anzeiger. Supplement to the new Würzburger Zeitung. No. 165 of June 16, 1859, p. 2 ( books.google.de ).
  • August Röckel : Saxony's uprising and the prison in Waldheim. Jäger, Frankfurt a. M. 1865, p. 388 ( MDZ Reader ).
  • KA: From a convict. In: The Gazebo . Issue 11. 1869, pp. 175-176.
  • [Obituary]. In: Franconian courier. (Nürnberg-Fürth latest news - Mittelfränkische Kurier) Nürnberg No. 24 of January 24, 1869, p. 1. ( books.google.de ).
  • [Obituary]. In: Sheets for literary entertainment. Edited by Rudolf Gottschall . No. 7 of February 11, 1869, p. 111. ( books.google.de ).
  • Oelckers, Theodor Hermann. In: Franz Brümmer : German Poet Lexicon. Volume 2. Krüll, Eichstatt & Stuttgart 1877, p. 111. ( books.google.de ).
  • Franz Brümmer:  Oelckers, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 238 f.
  • Oelkers, Theodor (sic!). In: Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch . Lexicon of politics, press and journalism. Continued by Eugen Kuri. Second volume. A. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1963, p. 935.
  • Hans Adler (ed.): Literary secret reports. Metternich agents' logs. Volume I. 1840-1843. ilv leske rebublik, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-434-00297-9 , p. 232.
  • Hans Adler (ed.): Literary secret reports. Metternich agents' logs. Volume II. 1844-1848. ilv leske rebublik, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-434-00354-1 , p. 138.
  • The “criminal table” in the “Guten Quelle” at Brühl (“Oelckers” front right) In: Wolfgang Schröder : Leipzig - the cradle of the German labor movement. Roots and development of the workers' education association 1848/49 - 1878/81. With a documentation of the activity reports . Karl Dietz, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-320-02214-3 , p. 137.

Web links

Wikisource: Theodor Oelckers  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sheets for literary entertainment . Edited by Rudolf Gottschall. No. 7 of February 11, 1869, p. 111
  2. ↑ Royal Bavarian Intelligence Journal for Upper Franconia. No. 111 of September 14, 1844 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ L. Stein In: Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung from 1845. (Review with allegations of plagiarism, books.google.de ).
  4. ↑ See Hans Adler (ed.).
  5. ^ The consequences of the Dresden uprising. In: Morgenblatt for educated readers. No. 147 of June 20, 1849 ( books.google.de ).
  6. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 289 of October 16, 1849, p. 4475 ( opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de ).
  7. ↑ weekly for strange legal cases in actenmäßigen representations from the field of administration of justice and administration, first for the Kingdom of Saxony. Leipzig 1849, Volume 9, No. 47, pp. 369-371 ( books.google.de ).
  8. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 185 of July 23, 1852, pp. 2915-2916 ( books.google.de ).
  9. ↑ Würzburger Anzeiger. Supplement to the new Würzburger Zeitung.
  10. ↑ DNB Info
  11. ↑ August Bebel. From my life (= August Bebel. Selected speeches and writings. Volume 6). Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983, p. 47.
  12. ^ Karl Albrecht: The Leipzig dialect. Grammar and dictionary of the Leipzig vernacular. Leipzig 1881, p. XIII ( MDZ Reader ).
  13. ^ Sheets for literary entertainment. No. 209 of July 28, 1843 (review, books.google.de ).
  14. ^ Bohemia an entertainment journal. No. 88 of July 23, 1844. ( The Eternal Jew. Books.google.de ).
  15. ↑ Weekly Literature and Art Review. Edited by Oswald Marbach No. 68. 1846 ( review ).
  16. ^ Austrian papers for literature and art, history, geography. IV. Vol. 210 of September 2, 1847, pp. 833-835 ( review ).
  17. ↑ North and South. Monthly sheet for entertainment and. Civilization. 1st year January 1848. Volume 1 ( review ).
  18. ↑ steel engraving. Original in the Leipzig City History Museum.
personal data
SURNAME Oelckers, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oelckers, Hermann Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, translator and revolutionary 1848/49
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1869
Place of death Leipzig